France Trépanier and Chris Creighton-Kelly
Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada Today: A Knowledge and Literature Review
Research and Evaluation Section Canada Council for the Arts April 2012
Trépanier’s and Creighton-Kelly’s research investigates an essential, but not a simple, question – how does one understand Aboriginal arts which are created in the territory known as Canada?
Skeena Reece Raven: On the Colonial Fleet, 2010
“I once heard an elder say that the great crime in this land was not that the natives had their language and culture beaten out of them in boarding schools – the great crime was that the people who came here did not adopt the culture of the land.” – Mike MacDonald
Trépanier and Creighton-Kelly use methods of observing, listening, respecting, remembering, regenerating, transmitting and healing to tell the connected stories of
Land ~ Peoples ~ Languages ~ Cultural Practices ~ Art
and find knowledge located in different places, in songs, baskets, moccasins, weaving, dreams, ceremony, language and political discourse
Inuvialuit Drummers and Dancers, Inuvik. Photographer: Chris Randle.
Alex Javier, Morning Star, Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Robert Houle, Paris/Ojibwa, 2010
“In Native culture, stories are not simply stories. They are told and retold so that ! they resonate in the present, not as myths and legends, but as a vital part of history. They teach critical lessons and cultural values, like bravery and the necessity of communication.” Candice Hopkins
Please read and become a pocket of wisdom and wakefulness
Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada Today
Circle Ceremony Nov 10 Open Space Artist Run Centre
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